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Jan 2, 2025 | 
nplusonemag.com | A. S. Hamrah
A never-miss holiday classic in my house is the film scholar Elena Gorfinkel’s polemic “Against Lists,” which was published in the journal Another Gaze in November 2019.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | A. S. Hamrah
The first cut of The Apprentice “included an improvised homoerotic dream sequence” in which Jeremy Strong, as Roy Cohn, “wore a skintight frog costume and climbed into bed” with Sebastian Stan, as Donald Trump, “and caressed his face.” So reports Gabriel Sherman, the film’s screenwriter, in a Vanity Fair article that appeared before the film’s release.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
screenslate.com | A. S. Hamrah
Francis Ford Coppola hardly needs an introduction. As the lion of the New Hollywood, the outline of his career is well known. From work with Roger Corman to his first films in the 1960s, and then his Oscar for the screenplay of Patton (1970) and the unprecedented worldwide success of The Godfather in 1972, he established a career against the Hollywood grain that also defines an epoch in film history. By 1969 he had already set up American Zoetrope, his own company away from Hollywood.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
nplusonemag.com | A. S. Hamrah
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
criterion.com | A. S. Hamrah |Scott Tobias
Albert Brooks’s first feature film, the sharp satire Real Life, is laser-focused on what at the time of its release, in the spring of 1979, must have seemed an unlikely target: An American Family, the PBS documentary series that had premiered six years earlier. Regarded by some as the first reality-television show, the series follows an upper-middle-class family, the Louds of Santa Barbara, California, through twelve hour-long episodes that were shot over seven months.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
thebaffler.com | Andrew Wilson |A. S. Hamrah |Marlowe Granados |Lyta Gold
It’s 2016. I’m a contemporary artist and have been living off of Medicaid, food stamps, and $20k annually since graduating from art school five years ago. I see the return policies offered by Bezos and the Waltons as loan agreements; I lend them $1,500, and the interest they pay is my use of a new hard drive. While TurboTaxing I hallucinate a DJ software skin and use the expense estimate sliders as fraud modulators.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
thebaffler.com | Liam Baranauskas |A. S. Hamrah |Philippa Snow
A few years ago, I decided I was going to watch all of Robert Altman’s movies and make a zine about them. I’ve never been much of a completist about people whose work I like, so even though he’d been one of my favorite directors forever, it hadn’t really occurred to me to seek out the movies that I’d skipped (mostly because they looked lousy). But I was living in Connecticut, which should give you some idea of how it was going, and I needed a small, good thing in a time like that.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
thebaffler.com | Ed Park |A. S. Hamrah |Libby Watson
I’m not an actor, but I was in a movie once. Bethany Blanket cast me in her student project my sophomore year at Yale. In one scene, I was made up to look old, with a wrinkled brow and a wig streaked white with talc. This morning, in the elevator at work, I saw that face again. A devastating start to the day. Machine City was a half-hour two-hander. It screened the weekend before winter break, at an unheated auditorium in the law school. You could see your breath.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
truthdig.com | A. S. Hamrah
Writers’ lives as depicted in French films continue to be things of great mystery, and I don’t mean murder mystery. In Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, a married, middle-aged writer couple (Sandra Hüller and Samuel Theis) seems overly involved in rap fandom. Their dog is named Snoop and husband Samuel “often,” according to wife Sandra, plays an instrumental steel-drum version of 50 Cent’s “P.I.M.P.” at full volume while doing home repairs on their massive A-frame in the French Alps.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
nplusonemag.com | A. S. Hamrah
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